Slouching Towards Oblivion

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Money = Speech

Why is it that a comedy show is where we get the best reporting and analysis?

(see the full episode here)

Two ridiculously important takeaways:
1) When people's votes are counted straight up, you get one result, but when you add in the multiplying effect of money, the result is entirely different.

2) People like Frank Luntz manipulate the language in an attempt to fog up the issues, making some of the most atrociously harmful policy proposals sound reasonable &/or beneficial* - and then topping it all off by referring to this process of obfuscation as "clarification", and calling the practitioners "Plain Speaking".

(*see Overton Window)

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